Slow MailScanner

[Doc Schneider]

Jay Chandler wrote:
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>> Nope, neither location (nor in /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/bayes, since 
>> this is from the FreeBSD ports tree).
>>
>> So, getting desperate to clear the backlog, I ran sa-learn --clear on 
>> the troubled box, and went to get myself a cup of coffee from the 
>> break room.
>> On the plus side, I now have coffee.  On the downside, it's still 
>> taking upwards of 20 seconds per message.
>>
>> The nameserver config is the same.  The hardware SHOULD be good-- 
>> these boxes are identical, and a month old.
>>
> Very interesting.  A restart of the box, and the queue is gone, and load 
> times are reasonable.  I suspect there's something stealing all the RAM 
> after a few days-- possibly MailScanner.  I'll have to investigate this 
> the next time it happens.
> 
> Thanks to all who helped-- I'm still debating the merits of a caching 
> nameserver.
> 
> Also-- would there be any benefit to setting up bayes in a SQL 
> environment to share between the two servers?
> 

That is the way I do my MailScanner. Using MySQL for everything and also 
running a DNS server on the boxen itself. So, yes, there are a lot of 
benefits to going DNS and MySQL for MailScanner.

And a plus is you can share the MySQL between servers. 8*)

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